Overall Green alert Flood for Nigeria
in Nigeria

Event summary

Flood Nigeria can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1101078
Death: 5
Displaced: 75
Countries: Nigeria
From - To 09 Sep - 14 Sep

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Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria, September 2021Hours of heavy rain on 12 September caused damaging flash floods in parts of Abuja and n the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria, in particular Trademoore, Light Gold, Wisdom and Lugbe. FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confirmed that 4 people lost their lives and 26 vehicles were swept away, damaged or destroyed. A total of 166 houses were damaged.Tue 14 Sep 2021FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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‘The climate crisis is a reality’: Africa’s summer of extremes2021-09-09T14:39+0200.

Over the past few months, there has been deadly heat and wildfires in Algeria, devastating flooding in countries including Uganda and Nigeria and severe drought conditions in southern Madagascar, driving widespread famine in the island nati
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Flood Destroys 4 Houses, Church in Akwa Ibom2021-09-03T16:40+0200.

Heavy rainfall at Eket in Akwa Ibom on Thursday destroyed four houses and a church. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the torrential rainfall lasted for 14 hours between 4a.m. and 6p.m. and also destroyed many
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Flood destroys 4 houses, church in Akwa Ibom2021-09-03T16:13+0200.

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the torrential rainfall lasted for 14 hours between 4a.m. and 6p.m. and also destroyed many shops. Testimony expressed displeasure at the early rainfall in September saying i
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Flood destroys four houses, church in Akwa Ibom2021-09-03T14:50+0200.

Four houses and a church were on Thursday destroyed after a heavy rainfall in Eket, Akwa Ibom. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the torrential rainfall lasted for 14 hours between 4a.m. and 6p.m. and also de
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),